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Ted Deutch: “Congress requires that 34,000 people be kept in detention facilities and provides more than $2 billion a year to hold…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2014
Congress requires that 34,000 people be kept in detention facilities and provides more than $2 billion a year to hold undocumented immigrants in detention facilities.
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Ted Deutch
Democratic · Florida

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Deutch highlights the financial burden of mandatory detention on taxpayers.

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